Blues Revival Quotes

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

Lonnie Donegan and the folk movement were responsible for a lot of the spread of the blues in England. The group Them with Van Morrison was a big influence on me, too, as were The Stones; The Yardbirds, John Mayall, and the other British blues pioneers.

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

If it wasn't for guys like Gary Moore, I wouldn't exist. He not only proved that the blues could rock but it could draw a crowd as well. All of which made a huge impression on me.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

I have a lot of analog. I think a lot of people do. There are a lot of people that are re-discovering it. I still have a lot of my old records from back in the day. It's a joy to play things like Junior Wells' 'Hoodoo Man Blues,' and John Mayall & The Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton. There's a warmth that you can still feel.

I was into Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, the blues.

That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

I heard Robert Johnson way before I heard about Eric Clapton.